His Three Daughters

His Three Daughters
Release poster
Directed by	Azazel Jacobs
Written by	Azazel Jacobs
Produced by	Azazel Jacobs Alex Orlovsky Duncan Montgomery Matt Aselton Marc Marrie Mal Ward Lia Buman Tim Headington Jack Selby
Starring	Carrie Coon Natasha Lyonne Elizabeth Olsen Rudy Galvan Jose Febus Jasmine Bracey Jay O. Sanders Jovan Adepo
Cinematography	Sam Levy
Edited by	Azazel Jacobs
Music by	Rodrigo Amarante
Production companies	High Frequency Entertainment Arts & Sciences Tango Animal Pictures Talkies Inc. Case Study Films
Distributed by	Netflix
Release dates	September 9, 2023 (2023-09-09) (TIFF) September 6, 2024 (2024-09-06) (United States)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

His Three Daughters is a 2023 American drama film written and directed by Azazel Jacobs. The film stars Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as three estranged sisters who come back together to care for their ailing father. It also stars Rudy Galvan, Jose Febus, Jasmine Bracey, Jay O. Sanders, and Jovan Adepo.

It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2023, and was released in select theaters in the United States on September 6, 2024, before its streaming debut by Netflix on September 20, 2024.

As their father Vincent reaches the end of his battle with cancer and enters hospice care at home, his children Katie, Rachel and Christina reunite in his New York City apartment. Though not his biological daughter, Rachel had lived with him throughout his illness. Katie and Rachel argue over Rachel's marijuana smoking in the apartment and Rachel's failure to have Vincent sign a Do Not Resuscitate while he was still fully lucid. Although Rachel insists Vincent did not mind her smoking, Katie makes Rachel do it outside. Katie criticizes Rachel after discovering there is no food in the fridge except three bags of apples.

Angel, a hospice worker, visits the home with nurse Mirabella and warns the sisters that their father could pass away very suddenly. Later, Katie struggles to write an obituary for Vincent, and Rachel obsesses over sports betting while refusing to go into the bedroom where Vincent is lying unconscious.

Angel tells the sisters that Vincent has progressed rapidly and will die soon. A point of contention becomes that when Vincent dies, Rachel will become the leaseholder of their family's longtime rent-controlled apartment. Katie in particular feels that Rachel is just "waiting for him to die" so she can inherit the apartment. The sisters briefly think that Vincent is dying; during the incident, Rachel still does not enter the room.

Rachel has her boyfriend Benjy over, who is frustrated with the way her sisters treat her, especially Katie, who despite living nearby in Brooklyn has rarely helped with Vincent. Though Rachel tells him not to, he confronts them, telling them off for treating Rachel poorly despite her being the only one taking care of their father for most of his decline, saying that when he eventually stopped eating anything but apples, Rachel was the one cutting them for him. He also reveals that he was friends with Vincent, and that although Katie had previously referred to him as "a stranger," he had met her the last time she visited, which he comments was "a few months" ago.

Katie tries to apologize to Rachel, but Rachel angrily rejects the apology. The two fight, and Christina gets in the middle, furiously screaming that she hates them both. When Katie considers returning home, Christina apologizes for what she said to both of them and Katie apologizes to Rachel, but only for specifically being wrong about the apples. When Katie brings up the lease, Rachel says she will move out when Vincent dies. The conversation culminates when Katie suggests that Rachel is less of Vincent's daughter, to which Rachel tearily responds that Vincent was the only father she ever had.

The next day, Katie and Rachel bond over Angel's repeated incorrect predictions of when Vincent will die, and the sisters' relationships begin to improve. Rachel helps Katie write Vincent's obituary, and finally enters Vincent's room to tell him about her parlay that day. Katie tells Rachel she should stay in the apartment. The three sisters enter Vincent's room together, and he asks them to move him to his favorite chair in the living room. Vincent suddenly rips off his medical equipment and begins walking around. To his shocked and delighted children, he monologues about his love for each of them, New York City, and the nature of life and death, only to look back at his chair and realize he died shortly after sitting down there.

Afterwards, the three sisters take turns sitting in his chair, then hold each other on the couch. Christina sings "Five Little Ducks" as footage of Katie and Christina each saying goodbye and returning home plays. After their departure, Rachel goes to smoke outside. Back on the couch, she interrupts Christina to sing the last line of the song, which she replaces with "Daddy duck said 'beep, beep, beeeeeep'" to laughter from her sisters.

• Carrie Coon as Katie
• Natasha Lyonne as Rachel
• Elizabeth Olsen as Christina
• Jay O. Sanders as Vincent
• Jovan Adepo as Benjy
• Rudy Galvan as Angel
• Jose Febus as Victor
• Jasmine Bracey as Nurse

His Three Daughters premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2023. In October 2023, Netflix acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film for $7 million, later scheduling it to be released in select theaters on September 6, 2024, followed by a streaming release on September 20.^[1]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 98% of 113 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The website's consensus reads: "Dealing with thorny family dynamics while remaining warm as a throw blanket, His Three Daughters is a compelling showcase for Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Carrie Coon."^[2] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 84 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".^[3]

Reviews for His Three Daughters have generally been positive, with Vanity Fair calling the film "a marvelous showcase",^[4] and The Hollywood Reporter lauding the three actresses�� performance as "exceptional".^[5]

• His Three Daughters at IMDb